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PlaceArtillery Road Barracks at the H.Q. of South African Defence
… This three storey building was to accommodate the General staff, and thus became known as the General building. Further alterations to the artillery camp …
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… is to understand its character and function, both in its general and specific traits, and to more correctly strategise … Lord Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain,…
PlaceHaartbeespoort
… and Witwatersrand (south of the Dam) was build by General Hendrik Schoeman in 1898. He named the dam the Sophia … after it was constructed. Johan Schoeman,…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… was opened in 1947 by South Africa’s then Prime Minister General Jan Smuts, following the end of World War II. The …
PlaceJansenville, Eastern Cape
… Municipality, in 1881. Said to have been named after General Jan Willem Janssens (1762-1838), the last Batavian … Municipality, in 1881. Said to have been…
PlaceCape Flats Nature Reserve, University of the Western Cape, Bellville
… with a low density of mammals, as with the Western Cape in general. Other fauna include Cape Angulate tortoise, …
PlaceGoodwood
… in 1861 and named by Charles D. Bell , surveyor general of the Cape and an Artist. It has its own … in 1861 and named after Charles D. Bell, surveyor general…
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… at the Anti-Pass Conference with three paragraphs of general report at the foot. At the end of the first of these …
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… had foreseen. Except for a temporary set-back in the general election of 1970, the National Party grew steadily …
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… of South Africa. G. Brand van Zyl who was the Governor General read out a proclamation on the annexation which …
EventSouth Africa is told by IAEA to open all nuclear plants to international inspection
… to inspection by the Agency and requests the Director General to continue taking the necessary measures in that …
Event5 Children Murdered in SADF Umtata Raid on Alleged APLA Arms Storage Facility
… APLA operatives staying at the house. According to General George Meiring, Chief of the Defence Force at the …
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
… reported killed in the fighting with loyal troops of Major-General Bantu Holomisa, the leader of the ruling Military …
EventInauguration ceremony of the South African College School (SACS) takes place
… SACS was born in 1791 when the Dutch Commissioner-General, Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, asked for money to …
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… Added to the woes of the Zimbabwean people, was the general elections held by the Mugabe regime, which they have …
EventA United Nations team finally arrives in Mbandaka, Congo, to investigate alleged massacres of refugees
… aid workers into refugee camps. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan accused the rebels of mass murder. A …
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… faced with rising costs and a fall in the price of gold. A general strike was organized by white trade unions in …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… the anti-British Ossewa-Brandwag (OB), and also became a general in its paramilitary wing. The O.B. was an ultra right …
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… of peaceful Indian protesters. Therefore, South African General Jan Christiaan Smuts was forced to negotiate a …
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… were disappointed when the South African government, under General J. C. Smuts proved to be equally oppressive. The …
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… commission included Jane Waterson, daughter of the British General, who was critical of Hobhouse. The appointment of …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… had become futile, and the Boers, under leaders like General De la Rey, had realized that war would now have to be …
EventHundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
… political authority. The UN Force Commander Lieutenant General Dallaire argued that in terms of the Arusha Accords, …
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… States, and after his studies served as Deputy Attorney General of Indiana. His first interest of South Africa began …
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… without incident. In a dawn announcement in Pretoria, General Constand Viljoen, chief of the South African Defense …
Chapter 9
… outlined the scheme for the first time before the Ciskeian General Council (Bunga) he spoke in terms of a scheme "wider … there linked up their opposition to…
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners
… in Parliament, schools, the civil service and society in general. But more than this, according to Davenport, ‘the …
PlaceMsinga Local Municipality
The name means: "A current in the sea where air movement causes ripples on top of the water surface and ends up influencing the nearby climatic conditions…
PlaceDelareyville, North West
… the tragedies of the Anglo-Boer War , and was named after General Koos De la Rey. Today, it continues to be an …